Article on the music industry ("The Day The Music Died")

Only really old people like the Beatles, so it was probably hard enough to sell them the USB apple stick: "Yes mam, you need to plug it into something. Do you have a newer car? Does it have a USB jack? No? How about a computer...."

I'm sure it was a tech support nightmare.

Hey, there is this Indian guy, sings great songs. No, not Bollywood, like regular, sensitive songs...

 

Eloi

 

Sure glad somebody has products for us old people with cordless land lines!!

 

A dab that big will really get ya!

 

You are past the halfway point, you are officially old.

And the fact that you publicly proclaim that you like the Beatles, actually adds years to your "true age".

When that USB apple thing came out, my local newspaper was reporting that older buyers had no idea what to do with it.

Remember, this was a decade ago.

Windows Media Player did not have native FLAC support, no young teens had $350 to buy that apple ($421 in today's dollars), and Beatles fans are old (even back then).

I got mine in Spain, and there was a warning sheet under the outside shrinkwrap telling you that you could "export" the songs as mp3s - a tech support nightmare for old people.

 

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Napster was a short lived sensation. Mythic like the Old West gunslingers.

Apple has done much more to disrupt the music industry.

-created devices to store and play back music. The first iPod had a 40Gb physical spinning hard drive. Easy for people to carry a DJ sized portfolio of songs.

-created a music service to download singles. No more buying eleven song albums to get the one popular song. $20 down to $1 a throw.

-popularized earbuds with poor music dynamic capabilities, so the songs that became popular were beats and yelling, forget about other instruments. They even bought the beats headphone company because the sound quality and marketing became a big threat.

And yet Apple products remain popular for musicians to buy and promote ...

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The key there is it was FLAC, so loseless (as you know), most of the digital music isn't anywhere near that quality.

I'm teetering close to a rant... but I have family photos over a 100 years old (old style film photos) and records my grand mother listened to.
I wonder how many personal digital photos and music will survive even 20 years, much less 100.

 

I don't have a player that plays wax cylinders, yet I can still listen to those recordings.

None of my high end turntables can play 78s, but I have two 8tb drives that supposedly have "every 78 recording known to exist" for my listening pleasure.

As long as you don't encrypt your music, it will be playable forever.

 

If you have something to play or look at it on, nice thing about photos you don't need anything to look at them.

 

Sure.

Think of your phone. Nowadays it comes with 128g of built in memory and takes a 1tb sd card.

It will play any music format (flac, mp3, wav, mp4, ogg...)

So with 1 terabyte of storage, there is no reason you can't have your entire music collection with you at all times.

Even in the future, you know the phones will still support all the old formats plus any new ones.

 

Take a different perspective, there's no electricity.

 

Switch your solar panels off the grid and into your battery bank.

That will give you time to transcribe all you songs onto conventional sheet music.

 

A dedicated player sounds much better, and can power most real headphones (not just earbuds).

The Pioneer XDP100 can hold 2tb of music, has an audiophile DAC, can Bluetooth into your car, and has enough jism to power 32ohm cans = $250

It's a good time to be an audiophile my friend!

 

And there we were all in one place, a generation lost in space, with no time left to start again.